#Leaseholders

Working on Draft Building Safety Bill. The Regulator can ask the Minister to make regulations on a matter if it would potentially cause a ‘major incident’. Major Incident is defined
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For just over a year now I’ve known the building I live in is dangerously unsafe.I’ve spent £8k for people to be on site but not make it any safer.I’ve
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On the advice of a nice lady at LEASE, I spoke to a nice lady at the Tribunal who heard our management company’s request to dispense with tender on an
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Time for some facts about building safety and shared ownership in the UK:1. There are 157,000 flats that are shared ownership in the UK. These are mainly young first time
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Snap reaction: 1. The loans offer will be a big problem for potentially millions in blocks below 18m. Not for repayment (if the cap works) but because it risks plunging
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The End Our Cladding Scandal campaign has been pushing the idea of a levy since November 2019. As recently as June, ministers were completely ruling it out.So this is a
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In case you missed it | The hidden housing scandalHundreds of thousands of flat owners could be forced to take on 30-year loans akin to a second mortgage to
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1/5 If your car has a manufacturing safety fault it's urgently recalledImagine instead of being recalled you had to pay an additional £200-£3300 per month to cover insurance hikes &
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In the latest instalment of No Good Deed goes Unpunished - after the ‘leaseholders and build defects’ webinar that Jenny Evans and I did, Jenny got a voicemail message today.
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For anyone following the Fire Safety Bill amendments, there is a new one from Labour which goes a bit further than the the McPartland/Smith amendment. Makes it harder now for
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A final thought on Jenrick's announcement today. The route of the government's problem is a failure to distinguish the varying levels of risk in buildings and until that nettle is
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London’s oldest public park is in the City of London - Finsbury Circus Garden.. The 2.2 hectare park is the largest open space in the City of London and is
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For those unaffected by the #CladdingScandal, it may be difficult to get a picture of how this is affecting people. So I thought I would go through my inbox and
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Ok, so here is a short thread on what this data really shows which is:1. We are now making steady (but still slow) progress on ACM remediation ONLY2. The wider
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Putting to one side whether or not it's really ok for a minister to chastise leaseholders in buildings with dangerous cladding for being sarcastic, the government's testing regime does not
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There's been lots of talk about how much better the Australian state of Victoria has been doing at dealing with its cladding crisis, so for this month's issue I spoke
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